Men's and women's tennis defeat Pioneers

Men’s and women’s tennis defeat Pioneers

By Thomas Albanese, QBSN Staff Writer

The Quinnipiac men’s and women’s tennis teams both continued their winning streaks against Sacred Heart on Tuesday. The women’s squad ran past the Pioneers by a score of 6-1 while the men’s team just slipped past the Pioneers with a score of 4-3 on its senior day.

The women’s team dominated the entire match, taking two doubles matches and five singles, dropping one of each.

Quinnipiac won 8-5 in No. 1 doubles with Rachel Cantor (Short Hills, N.J.) and Sarah Viebrock (Carmel, N.Y.) defeating Kate Donnelly and Kristina Chao. The Bobcats’ No. 2 doubles Jacqueline Raynor (Garden City, N.Y.) and Michelle Dassa (Marlboro, N.J.) were also victorious with a score of 8-1, smashing Nicole Rydzewski and Kristin Legenza.

Each of the singles matches finished in two dominated sets. Raynor, Viebrock, and Dassa took No. 2, 3 and 4 singles respectively. Quinnipiac’s Ariana Launie (Milton, Mass.) and Lavinia Cristescu (West Hartford, Conn.), who made up the pair that lost in the doubles round, each won their singles matches. Launie won her match 6-1, 6-1 while Cristescu took her match 6-2, 6-0. Those victories sealed the 6-1 victory for the Bobcats, taking them to 7-9 overall with a 2-2 NEC record.

For the men, the narrow win improved the Bobcats to 7-8 overall and 3-2 in the NEC with two away non-conference opponents remaining on their schedule.

Senior James Kwei (Dedham, Mass.) continued his historic play with victories in both singles and doubles. Kwei and Andrew Weeden (Martinsville, N.J.) won their doubles match 8-4 over Logan Mohring and Jacob Miller of Sacred Heart. Kwei finished his day by defeating the Pioneer’s Justin Pagan 6-2, 6-0.

The Bobcats swept the Pioneers in all three doubles matches while singles matches, each team taking three wins. The other two singles victories came from Garrett Lane (Reading, Mass.) 6-4, 6-1, and Eric Ambrosio (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.) 6-2, 6-2.

Sacred Heart’s three singles wins came from Chadd Sullo, Mohring, and Miller. They each needed to fight for their wins as they all completed the split for the Pioneers by winning in long, three-set matches.

The Quinnipiac men’s and women’s tennis teams will be back in action on Saturday, April 14 at Stony Brook.  The first serve is set for 12 p.m.